Vayalar Ravi Flooded With Complaints

Telangana Congress Monitoring Group chairman and APCC general secretary G Niranjan, on Tuesday, appealed to Congress emissary and Union Minister Vayalar Ravi to take an early decision on the Telangana statehood issue.

Talking to media persons after meeting Vayalar Ravi at Gandhi Bhavan, Niranjan said that the decision on the Telangana demand was important for reviving the party's position in the region.

He said that he had also appealed to Vayalar Ravi to take steps to fill the posts of all District Congress Committees across the state to improve the party's performance in the ensuing by-elections to be held in 18 Assembly segments.

Former PRP GHMC president and Congress leader Feroz Khan lodged a complaint with Vayalar Ravi over the issue of party posts not being filled by PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana since the PRP-Congress merger. He said that the erstwhile PRP leaders' morale has been affected at all levels, as the Congress has failed to fill up the posts.

If the PCC and the Chief Minister fail to take steps in this direction, the Congress would suffer a major debacle in the ensuing by-elections, Feroz Khan stated.

APCC general secretary Abed Rasool Khan said that leaders of minority communities were being neglected in the party, and that that was the reason why they are quitting the party and joining other parties.

He appealed to Vayalar Ravi to do justice to minorities in when filling up nominated posts.

Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao hailed the party for the "Medhomadanam" on the debacle of the party in the recent by-elections. He said that the Medhomadanam would benefit the party in the ensuing by-elections to be held for 18 Assembly segments.

Earlier, Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, Primary Education Minister S Sailajanath, BC Welfare Minister Basavaraj Saraiah, MP Ponnam Prabhakar, Rajya Sabha member and former government advisor K V P Ramachandra Rao, Rajya Sabha member Palwai Govardhan, former ministers J C Diwakar Reddy and Gade Venkat Reddy, and other leaders, met Vayalar Ravi. (INN)